Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

I can foresee a few problems caused by the wrap around behaviour:

It is the only true change in behaviour with the introduction of integers.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there are a couple of ways that floats are silently converted to integers. (e.g. iterating keys in a table)

This means that code such as:

    t = { }

    t [ 0.0 ] = "foo"

    for k , v in pairs ( t ) do

        t [ k+2^65 ] = v

    end

Will completely change behaviour.

Though this is an esoteric example, I can brainstorm several manners in which this behaviour could sneak into my modules.

A 'solution' to this 'problem' is actually a bit hard to think up, I don't think wrap around is the behaviour that should happen here.

Intuition tells me a silent promotion to double might be the best choice; but this might not make sense when you're not on a 64/64 build.